Quick update

Some of You were concerned by the lack of new messages on our blog so we took the opportunity to give You an update. Everything is going fine. We don’t have any particularly exciting new features to brag about so we didn’t see the need to bombard You with marketing bullshit.

Here comes a small list of changes since the last blog post. I bet 99% of You didn’t notice a single one of them:

we cleaned up the code responsible for handling file links a little. It was seriously messed up and in dire need for rewrite. The old code generated a few dozen different links all of which pointed to the same file. That wasn’t a real problem but we still needed to change it. Currently every valid link not in the form of http://wwwXX.zippyshare.com/v/1234567890/file.html will be redirected to the right address.

we have added additional capacity to our aggregation switches in order to prevent congestions during peak hours. Speed should be a little better in some specific circumstances.

we have added SSL support to our main site (storage nodes excluded). You are free to browse through You account website using https now.

we changed the hosting company for our CDN (additional POPs in Asia, South America, Europe, SSL also supported)

we spend quite some time on streamlining the process of handling abuse/dmca notifications.

Currently we are working on the following:

changing the mechanism used for communication between our servers to a more bulletproof one.

getting those statistics fixed! We had a major crash of our Cassandra cluster about 4 months ago. Before the crash the data returned from our DB did resemble data returned by a random number generator. It’s very unlikely that we will be able to restore the historical data (don’t ruling it out though). We jumped on the “Big Data” bandwagon quite to early (Cassandra 0.5). It seemed to us as a good idea back then. A start over should work better in the future.

Unfortunately in order to get things right this time both the changes mentions need to be introduced together so it might take us a little more time.

What we are thinking about doing:

adding some new storage nodes and increasing both the max size and live time of files. No decision reached yet so don’t bet anything on this happening any time soon.

What we are NOT working on:

a new layout. We do know that it is time for a major overhaul of our website. We tried to do something about it a couple of times but weren’t able to find a company which would be eager to work on it. All of our layouts so far where created by our programmers and administrators. In case You wondered why Zippyshare is and always was so ugly You now know the truth

I like your Design. No one needs a different one!
But.. what about the reCaptchas? Your post (15.11.2012): “We hope that the reCaptcha will be only a temporary solution.”
Always testing? Update please!

We love Zippyshare so much. We feel alone when we see no new news from Zippyshare on the download pages. So no matter what you guys are doing keep posting updates about them. It will never be boring, and will never bombard us.

The design is perfect as it is. It’s easy to navigate, quick to load even on my shotty computer and there are no unnecessery things on it. It’s a simple and ergonomicaly sound design.
If you want to change it because it’s “old”… – than on the next meeting when the topic comes up just call it “vintage” and move on. All the node and cluster things sounds way more important than changing something that is working like a charm.

Uhh, another thing not even related to the blog post: if you are thinking about creating an annoying download helper program (annoying_maybe_virus.exe) or something – please postpone it till 2080 or later.

Anyhow, your share site is the best, keep up the good work and thank you.

It’s good, clean, and simple… love zippyshare, no need change your layout and design, but if you can please add more connection till 16 (via IDM) and can support resume downaoad, when suddenly connection cut-off I can resume the corrupt download 😛

“In case you wondered why Zippyshare is and always was so ugly you now know the truth :)”

Actually this layout is pretty nice. I’d change only 2 things:
* Add [or replace the current audioplayer for a] HTML5 audioplayer
* Made some minor fixes in order to make Zippyshare work fine even with Ghostery add-on enabled.

That’s all for now. I have more suggestion, but let’s do it step by step.

Please increases the limit of each upload file
Cause some of my 320kbps mixes are more than 200mb .
And I don’t know where to upload them to share for my friends .
Just make it more than 50mb .
And there no host site can defeat our Zippy

i hope you put premium accounts so that the files we upload will not be deleted, also make it payable via paypal =) cross finger… all i want is the files will be stored lifetime or maybe 1 year… thanksssss awesome site…

Pardon my french, fuck the redesign – what you have is fast and clear and works, and isn’t *actually ugly*. Hell – looks better than my stuff. This is one of the few sites that doesn’t victimize random visitors with bullshit – I love it.

hey I just wanted to let you guys know that zippy share is the boss this is the best file sharing software I have ever used . as far as im concerned there are quite a few out there that shud be banned but your site just rocks I will be telling everyone I know about this any links you can put up to advertise yourselves I would be more than willing to post for you guys..i just love zippyshare

The present design is perfectly functional as it is, but if you want to dress it up and tweak it a bit — without losing the ease of use — what the heck; go for it. It’s really great not having to do the captcha thing; that was the only thing that for me might be described as an annoyance. I hope this is a permanent improvement. It would also be nice to have a higher ceiling on file size — like maybe 400MB — since some sites avoid using you when a file has to be split. Still, in a list of download sites, the first thing I always look for is zippyshare.

Hello im a member on zippyshare since we can register and i think is the biggest upload site so im not asking nothing im just giving an opinion since there are a lots of users and a lots of upload sites you should thing make zippy like (upl.ws) every user who is uploading files cand make money every time when somebody download his files 😀 for example if im having a file and somebody downloads my file i cand gain money anyway is just an opinion maby in the nearest future u think on this thing thx and by the way zippy is the best and keep going with the good things im glad being a member here

Sorry to disagree with you, Pogo, but one of the beauties of Zippyshare is that there IS no money involved. There are other sites available for this, as you mention. With Zippyshare the uploader has no cost to store a file, and it costs him nothing if someone downloads it. so let’s not make Zippyshare a commercial enterprise for uploaders.

It is one of the most beautiful website layouts I know and use. Please don’t change it. keep it simple and clean as it is. Don’t put down the people who designed. Instead give them an award. I love zippy share.

zippyshare have a simple web design, meets the requirements of the users for me it is fine but lacks an option that says “change email address” because it sometimes happens that you lose your email address and password zippyshare forget and another account must be recreated on zippyshare. thanks

I am just wondering: How the hell are you guys able to generate income? I mean, all the work you guys have to put into maintaining the website and keeping up the servers. The costs of running those servers must be immense right?

No annoying adds, no waiting time, fast downloads. It’s a users paradise 😀

Quite honestly, the site design right now is the epitome of good web design. It’s not completely flashy-banner-gradient-color because it doesn’t need to be a flashy-html-css wonderchild. Instead of relying on gimmicks like fancy buttons and shiny headers, your website delivers in it’s undying service to providing us with one of the best file-sharing sites on this side of the internet.

Just as a personal opinion, the nice, clean layout is a refreshing change from the conglomerate-mess of “fancy layouts” that most file-sharing sites try to foister upon the user. It’s quick, simple, easy to use, and (most importantly, if you’ve read the majority of the comments) incredible appealing.

The layout is beautiful. Spare me that flat design shit and use that money on a nice corporate outing like go karting, exit games or trampolining. When I come to zippy share all I look for is the file meta and download button. Don’t change something that works.

Benefits of using Zippyshare:
File Life: 30 days after no activity.
that’s not our benefit ,
just don’t auditing your own profitable dialog .otherwise zippyshare is the 1000 times honorable more then established corporation and salute from poor visitors like me.if zippyshare If are not born we(poor visitors) could became Toys video game user for want of free service .